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At the ruins of an Old Kingdom pyramid at Amheida, one of the numerous archeological sites around Dakhleh, archeologists will sift ancient debris to determine which fragments and artifacts will be analyzed.

1 posted on 10/07/2006 12:02:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 10/07/2006 12:02:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (If I had a nut allergy, I'd be outta here. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Lots more photos in the article. I suggest those interested visit the page and then save the thing as a browser archive file.


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Archaeologists discover Pharaonic temple in Western Desert
The Egyptian State News | March 15, 2003 | Editorial Staff
Posted on 03/18/2003 9:17:25 AM EST by vannrox
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6 posted on 10/07/2006 6:06:48 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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Very, very interesting article, Civ. Thanks for posting it!


7 posted on 10/07/2006 6:12:56 PM PDT by elli1
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the pics.
Senior archeologist Mary McDonald of the dop views Neolithic grinding stones in the desert near Dakhleh. From the characteristics of a society’s “tool kit,” archeologists can tell much about the people’s economy and mobility: Sedentary cultures tend to have heavier, more specialized tools; nomadic ones lighter, multipurpose or disposable tools.
Anthony Mills founded the Dakhleh Oasis Project (DOP) in 1978. Since then, it has hosted dozens of specialists from around the world to study the relationship between the land and its inhabitants from 400,000 years ago up to the Roman era. At the ruins of an Old Kingdom pyramid at Amheida, one of the numerous archeological sites around Dakhleh, archeologists will sift ancient debris to determine which fragments and artifacts will be analyzed.
Mainly known for its wheat, mangoes, oranges and dates, Dakhleh is the largest of Egypt’s five “Islands of the Blessed,” oases deep inside the Western Desert, which is part of the Sahara.
For the Bashendi, the Neolithic Revolution was an adaptation to the drying of their savannah into today’s desert. When they moved east to the Nile Valley, they brought cattle and agriculture.
The first material evidence of the connection between the desert and the pharaohs came from the several dozen “Bashendi” settlement ruins, spotted in 1990 and analyzed over the past decade. At this animal enclosure, McDonald found evidence of goats and cattle some 6500 years old; in others, she found tools and jewelry that resembled artifacts from sites almost due east along the Nile.
Although Dakhleh is today one of Egypt’s most modern agricultural regions, around its older parts, animal-drawn carts are still used, harking back to the first domestications of animals more than six millennia ago.

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